Mclean Meditation Institute

The McLean Meditation Institute® is a worldwide leader in professional meditation teacher instruction and one of the leading meditation and mindfulness training companies in the U.S. Its Meditation Teacher Academy® offers an extensive teacher training program for those who want to become teachers of a meditation and mindfulness, and is dedicated to educating meditation instructors to the highest standards of excellence.

Headquartered in beautiful Sedona, Arizona, the institute is a destination for anyone who wants to learn to meditate or deepen their meditation practice. Whether you come and take a mindfulness and meditation class, participate in a study group, drop-in to one of the daily meditation sessions, or immerse yourself in a weekend meditation retreat, such as the Soul Radiance Mindfulness & Meditation Retreat and the Creative Soul Women’s Writing Retreat, there’s a program for everyone.

MMI was founded by popular author and meditation teacher, Sarah McLean, in 2006 after 20 years of a deep, personal meditation practice. She’s spent years as a resident in a Zen Buddhist monastery, lived in a Transcendental Meditation Community, and spent months living in an ashram in. She’s also had a lot of experience working in the field of personal transformation, including heading up the education programs at Deepak Chopra’s center in California Byron Katie’s School for the Work.

Sarah is a best-selling Hay House author and sought-after speaker who makes meditation easy for anyone. She’s truly dedicated to creating more peace on this planet by helping people to wake up tot he wonder and beauty of creation. Read more about her here.

At MMI, we believe a new meditator should be mentored by an experienced professional; someone who can take the mystery out of meditation and mindfulness and make it accessible to everyone, regardless of their cultural beliefs or religious traditions. When someone is taught to meditate correctly, he or she is more likely to continue to meditate on their own and can soon experience the myriad benefits that meditation provides.

A professional meditation & mindfulness teacher should be able to mentor the student every step of the way: helping them to understand what mindfulness and meditation are, giving them keys to a successful practice, teaching them how to practice a variety of techniques, addressing their personal concerns, educating them on the benefits they can receive, helping them to navigate the obstacles they may face in practice, and giving them advice on how to sustain an everyday meditation and mindfulness practice.